Category: Shutter Speed

As you may or may not have noticed, your digital camera has a setting that says ISO with a number after it. You probably never really cared what that meant and how it affected your photography…but today you will find out. Simply put, ISO is how sensitive your camera’s film or digital sensor is to light. With that said, let’s dive...

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The Basics: Shutter Speed To put it simply, Shutter Speed is the length of time the digital sensor, or film, is exposed to light while the shutter is open. I gave you a brief introduction to Shutter Speed in Shooting Modes when I mentioned Shutter Priority Mode (Tv or S). You now also have a good understanding of Aperture and...

To put it simply, Depth of Field is a range of distances in a photograph that appear to be in sharp focus. When you focus on a point in front of the lens, there is a plane parallel with the camera’s sensor that will be in focus. However there is a distance in front of and behind that plane...

You just learned more than you ever wanted to know about aperture in Beyond Auto: Aperture – Part 1, now what does that have to do with my photos? The answer is that it has everything to do with your photos! All cameras have an aperture, yes even that smartphone in your pocket. Some of them we can manually adjust,...